Strange Quotes - Page 16

• I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.

  Ryan Grim

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?

  Michael Totten

  Country, Iraq, Shields

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• In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

  Nick Blaemire

  People, Challenges, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Objectivity, Growth, Encounters

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

  Rod Serling

  Awards, Accomplishment, Towns

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Writing, People

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

  Paul Auster

  Notebook, Hands, Events

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Ideas, Important, Sound

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• It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Long, Return, Quiet

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• My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

  Garth Greenwell

  Months, Firsts, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign`s own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.

  Chris Hayes

  Campaigns, Use, Lists

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

  Patricia Arquette

  Self, Who I Am, Littles

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Vain, Virgins

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.

  Will Oldham

  Writing, Awkward, Tunes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Want, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

  Edgar Wright

  Looks, London, Kind

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I was going to keep shooting or help the guy. And so I kept shooting and then they put him in this little clinic, and I photographed through the window while they had to amputate his leg. And I felt very strange because I didn't - I felt I could have helped, but I didn't help. But then I also felt elated that I was getting a shot that would be important to the film.

  Haskell Wexler

  Thinking, Guy, Important

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Country, Korea

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Japan, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

  Benjamin Carson

  Government, Care, Reason

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

  Brad Warner

  Talking, Insane Person, Guy

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

  Vladimir Putin

  United States, May, Sometimes

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

  Prefuse 73

  People, Spain, Cuban

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Stories, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, School, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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